1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.